Birth as an American Rite of Passage: Second Edition, With a New PrefaceUniversity of California Press, 2003 - 382 páginas Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface to this 2003 edition of a book that has been read, applauded, and loved by women all over the world, makes it clear that the issues surrounding childbirth remain as controversial as ever. |
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Birth as a Rite of Passage | 1 |
The Stages of the PregnancyChildbirth | 22 |
Birth as Transformation | 38 |
Past and Present | 44 |
The Technocratic | 154 |
The Ideology of Safety | 177 |
A Middle Ground? | 184 |
Full Acceptance of the Wholistic Model of Birth | 199 |
The Reinterpretation of | 241 |
Obstetric Training as a Rite of Passage | 252 |
The Computerized Birth? Some Ritual | 281 |
Or Birth as the Biodance? | 292 |
Conclusion | 305 |
Appendix | 313 |
References | 331 |
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